oesophageal cancer aged 82, centred around his family and farming. His wife,
daughter and son always came first and were the focus of his hard work.
Ned reared dairy and sheep stock of the highest quality (if in small numbers)
and played a very active part in the farming community. He witnessed at first
hand the evolution of small-scale dairy and sheep farming from the
impoverished pre-second world war era, through a minor wartime and postwar
boom, to its undervalued status today.
The youngest of six children in a farming family that had fallen on hard
times, Ned won a scholarship to Queen Elizabeth school in Kirkby Lonsdale,
Lancashire, but had to leave as soon as he reached 14 to help with wartime
farm work.
He was a man with many interests. He skied (before it was fashionable), and
was an accomplished cricketer and bridge and bowls player. He had a lifelong
addiction to the poetry of Robert Burns, billiards, patience and the Guardian
crossword ? surpassed only by his passion for traditional liberal politics.
The one blight in his long and ...
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